2 Attorneys Admit Plan To Extort $200M From Company Related To Roundup Litigation

(July 6, 2020, 9:57 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on June 19 announced that two attorneys had pleaded guilty to orchestrating a scheme to extort $200 million from a company in connection with a purported “consulting agreement” they offered Monsanto Co. related to litigation involving the herbicide Roundup, which contains the active ingredient glyphosate (United States of America v. Timothy Litzenburg, No. 19-69, W.D. Va.)....

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